[OpenAFS-devel] fileserver preformance bottlenecks

[omalleys@msu.edu]

Quoting Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>:

> Anton Lundin <glance@acc.umu.se> writes:
>
>> Is des-crypto that hard? Should it impact performance that much?
>
> Yes (fcrypt rather than DES, but yes).
>
> One of the ironies of encryption is that AES is actually quite a bit
> faster than DES as well as being stronger.

Hardware encryption/decryption at least on embedded devices is  
commonplace for both encryption types.